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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| deify | to make a god of |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |