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 |
|---|---|
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| viable | capable of living |
| demur | to take exception : object |