GRE Word List
INGENUE
a naive girl or young woman
The meaning of the word ingenue is a naive girl or young woman.
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| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| reek | smoke |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |