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 |
|---|---|
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| groom | bridegroom |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| demented | mad |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |