GRE Word List
INGENUE
ingenue; young innocent girl
The meaning of the word ingenue is ingenue; young innocent girl.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lateral | of or coming from the side |
| malicious | hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite |
| potential | expressing possibility; latent; N: capacity for growth |
| saline | salty |
| dumbfound | astonish (making dumb); ADJ. dumbfounded, dumfounded, dumbstruck |
| check | stop motion; curb or restrain |
| leonine | like a lion |
| badger | pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal |
| blase | bored with pleasure or dissipation; uninterested or bored |
| pore | study industriously; ponder; scrutinize; Ex. pore over the book; N. |