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 |
|---|---|
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| clown | farmer |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
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