GRE Word List
INGENUOUS
showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
The meaning of the word ingenuous is showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness.
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| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |