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 |
|---|---|
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |