GRE Word List
MELANCHOLY
depression of spirits : dejection
The meaning of the word melancholy is depression of spirits : dejection.
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bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |