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 |
|---|---|
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| mulct | fine |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| archipelago | an expanse of water with many scattered islands |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |