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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| upright | perpendicular |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| bauble | trinket |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| 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 |