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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| hallowed | holy |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| dull | tedious |
| transcendental | transcendent |