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 |
|---|---|
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| guileless | innocent |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |