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 |
|---|---|
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| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
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| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
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