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 |
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| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| aloft | at or to a great height |