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 |
|---|---|
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |