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 |
|---|---|
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |