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 |
|---|---|
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| migratory | of, relating to, or characterized by migration |