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 |
|---|---|
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| verge | brink |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |