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 |
|---|---|
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| archipelago | an expanse of water with many scattered islands |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |