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 |
|---|---|
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| alleviate | relieve |
| abominate | to hate or loathe intensely : abhor |
| pummel | pound |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |