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 |
|---|---|
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| forlorn | bereft |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |