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.
Random words
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| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |