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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| cant | the expression or repetition of conventional or trite opinions or sentiments |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |