GRE Word List

DOLDRUMS

a spell of listlessness or despondency

The meaning of the word doldrums is a spell of listlessness or despondency.

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WordMeaning
ameliorateto make better or more tolerable
exertionthe act or an instance of exerting
medleya musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces
threshto separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically
irateroused to ire
outstripto go faster or farther than
floraa treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
elegya poem in elegiac couplets
swelterto suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat
remediablecapable of being remedied