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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |