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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
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| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| outmoded | not being in style |
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