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 |
|---|---|
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |