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 |
|---|---|
| veracious | truthful |
| toss | to throw with a quick, light, or careless motion or with a sudden jerk |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |