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 |
|---|---|
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |