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nostalgia

nounCommon GRE wordMore N words

a sentimental longing for the past

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In a sentence

Nostalgia in a sentence

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The old photographs filled her with nostalgia for her childhood summers.

Synonyms
wistfulnessyearninghomesickness
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Nostalgia (noun) means a sentimental longing for the past
Here is nostalgia used in an example sentence: "The old photographs filled her with nostalgia for her childhood summers."
Common synonyms for nostalgia include wistfulness, yearning, homesickness.
Nostalgia is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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