GRE Word List
DISCONSOLATE
cheerless
The meaning of the word disconsolate is cheerless.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| spate | freshet |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |