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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| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |