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 |
|---|---|
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| savory | having savor: such as |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| shambles | a meat market |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |