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 |
|---|---|
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| calorific | caloric |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |