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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| contest | strive |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| gyroscope | a 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 |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| tangible | capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch : palpable |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |