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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| implode | to burst inward |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| sentinel | sentry |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |