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 |
|---|---|
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| calculated | apt |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |