GRE Word List
WINSOME
generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
The meaning of the word winsome is generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence.
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predispose | to dispose in advance |
acuity | keenness of perception |
buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |