GRE Word List
MELANCHOLY
depression of spirits : dejection
The meaning of the word melancholy is depression of spirits : dejection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| superficial | of, relating to, or located near a surface |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |