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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |