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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |