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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |