GRE Word List
WISTFUL
full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
The meaning of the word wistful is full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| stout | strong of character: such as |
| pedagogue | teacher |