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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| Word | Meaning |
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| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |