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wan

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore W words

pale and sickly in appearance, suggesting weakness or weariness

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Wan in a sentence

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After weeks of illness she gave only a wan smile to her visitors.

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ruddyflushedrobust

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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Wan (adjective) means pale and sickly in appearance, suggesting weakness or weariness
Here is wan used in an example sentence: "After weeks of illness she gave only a wan smile to her visitors."
Common synonyms for wan include pallid, ashen, sallow.
Antonyms of wan include ruddy, flushed, robust.
Wan is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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