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 |
|---|---|
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| flighty | swift |
| 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 |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| vapid | lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit : flat |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |