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 |
|---|---|
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| disport | sport |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |