Desperate
Meaning: a feeling of hopelessness when a situation is so bad that it is impossible to deal with.
Example of using it in a sentence “I shall do my homework defiantly on time this week, because I have planned my time out well."
The root word comes from the Latin word meaning despair – without hope!
Spelling tip: we are going to help ourselves with the spelling but saying the word with the hard “per” in the middle and hard “ate” at the end.
des + per + ate
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