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 |
|---|---|
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| plethora | an ample amount or number : abundance |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |