GRE Word List
DISHEARTEN
to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale
The meaning of the word dishearten is to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| exegesis | exposition |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |