GRE Word List

PLAINTIVE

expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy

The meaning of the word plaintive is expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy.

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visionthe act or power of seeing : sight
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dwindleto become steadily less : shrink
solecisman ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence