GRE Word List
MOODINESS
subject to depression : gloomy
The meaning of the word moodiness is subject to depression : gloomy.
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| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |