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 |
|---|---|
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| trample | tramp |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |