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 |
|---|---|
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |