GRE Word List
MELANCHOLY
depression of spirits : dejection
The meaning of the word melancholy is depression of spirits : dejection.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peerless | matchless |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |