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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conteststrive
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interveneto occur, fall, or come between points of time or events
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
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