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 |
|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |