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 |
|---|---|
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| progeny | descendants |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |