Desperation is valid Scrabble Word

Is desperation a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPERATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

loss of hope and surrender to despair
a state of despair, typically one which results in rash or extreme behaviour
The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
a state in which all hope is lost or absent
desperate recklessness

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Words that contain DESPERATION

How to use DESPERATION in a sentence

With a sort of desperation he started for the stairs.
But in the state of feverish desperation in which he lived this did not prevent him from again flying into a passion with her, at the slightest cause of dissatisfaction.
It joined in the general strike out of sheer desperation.
Of course it was perfect desperation for the five to tackle the cowboys, but they were game to do it, all the same.
He would go to her! There could be no wrong in loving her, in being near her, in standing by her in those hours of desperation.
In desperation I went to see the men at the office.
Kenny, swinging down the turnpike in the vigor of desperation, felt no single pang of penance.
The next morning in a mood of desperation, he took a long shot at a flying grouse and missed it.
That night, when she was more beset, more worried than before, however, desperation was increasing upon her.
The serpent struck at it repeatedly, but the fugitive, in its desperation, eluded each blow, giving utterance to pitiful cries, as a frog will do when pursued by a snake.

These northern dogs, when driven to desperation by hunger, will turn upon their best friend and master, and here was another danger.
Just then a cry arose in the rear, and a horse attached to a broken vehicle was seen coming, running away in the very desperation of fear.
There is then an instant choice for us between courage to cut loose, and desperation if we do not.
There was no trail and going was painful but the men moved with the care of desperation.
Finally the King, in desperation, issued a proclamation that he would knight any one, be he noble or common, who should cut off the head of the Pumpkin Giant.
In sheer desperation, I went out on the platform for five minutes and stamped around to keep warm, hoping all the time he would stop when he found I did not answer.
Casting off her own terror with the resolve of desperation, she sprang up and sped into the cabin.
All the love that pride had tried, and tried in vain, to crush, rose in desperation stronger than ever within her.
He fixed his eyes upon the one remaining light and ran with utter desperation.
Hervey had departed, in wrath and desperation, bent upon his next stunt.
Indeed, it was not so much his strength, which was remarkable, that enabled him to keep his hold upon this depending dead weight, as it was sheer desperation.
Sometimes in their desperation they grasp blindly at other bodies, and try to enter into them, and occasionally they are successful in such an attempt.
The Free State men were wrought up to the verge of desperation.
The warfare is no mere passing amusement for him, for he, in desperation, is facing a terrible and awful judgment if he cannot succeed in his purpose.
But Murray and Lethington, in desperation, were aiming at higher game even than this.
One party fell in love with a baby goat and Casey in a moment of desperation told them they could have it.
The sight roused in him such desperation that he had much ado to control his impulse to rise and leave the house.
You make no allowance for necessity, or the desperation of my condition.
As a matter of fact, Cornelia was perpetually goaded into fresh outbursts of desperation by the tyrannical attitude of her uncle.
Maddened to desperation, the sergeant attacked Mrs.
The resolution formed itself in a brain turbulent with passion and desperation.

Similar words containing SPERA without suffix tion and without prefix de

asperate10 vesperal13 asperated12 asperates11 desperado13 desperate12 esperance13 vesperals14 asperating13 desperados14 esperances14 exasperate19 desperadoes15 desperately17 exasperated21 exasperater20 exasperates20 exasperator20 desperations15 exasperaters21 exasperating22 exasperation21 exasperative24 exasperators21 desperateness16 exasperatedly26 exasperations22 exasperatingly27 desperatenesses18

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