GRE Word List
DOLDRUMS
a spell of listlessness or despondency
The meaning of the word doldrums is a spell of listlessness or despondency.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imply | to express indirectly |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |