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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| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| document | proof |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
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