GRE Word List
DOLDRUMS
a spell of listlessness or despondency
The meaning of the word doldrums is a spell of listlessness or despondency.
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| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
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| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| gazette | newspaper |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
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| contest | strive |
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