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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WordMeaning
componenta constituent part : ingredient
palliddeficient in color : wan
humblenot proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive
canvassto go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments
qualifyto reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify
whitthe smallest part or particle imaginable : bit
elegya poem in elegiac couplets
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
outmodednot being in style
swelterto suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat