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 |
|---|---|
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |