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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effaceto eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface
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whiffa quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray
moresthe fixed morally binding customs of a particular group
plaitpleat
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neologisma new word, usage, or expression
solicitousmanifesting or expressing solicitude
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