GRE Word List
NOSTALGIA
a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
The meaning of the word nostalgia is a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |