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For the SAT and college: the words of the SAT’s reading passages. 1,119 words, A to Z.

3 words match “nostalgic”

  • nostalgic adjective

    feeling a fond longing for the past

    The smell of sel roti makes me nostalgic for Tihar at my grandmother’s house.

    Like wistful, sentimental, longing

  • sentimental adjective

    driven by tender feelings like nostalgia rather than reason

    She kept her old school bag for sentimental reasons.

    Like nostalgic, emotional, mawkish

  • wistful adjective

    thinking with gentle sadness about something past or out of reach

    On the last day of the holidays, she took a wistful look at the beach.

    Like nostalgic, longing, yearning