GRE Word List
DOLDRUMS
a spell of listlessness or despondency
The meaning of the word doldrums is a spell of listlessness or despondency.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| superficial | of, relating to, or located near a surface |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |