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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| unfrock | defrock |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |