GRE Word List
WANDERLUST
strong longing for or impulse toward wandering
The meaning of the word wanderlust is strong longing for or impulse toward wandering.
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| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |