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 |
|---|---|
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| intermediary | mediator |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |