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 |
|---|---|
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |