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 |
|---|---|
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
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| niggle | trifle |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |