GRE Word of the Day

salad days \salad days\, noun:
A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.

Elinor looked outside at Marianne and Mr. Willoughby and could not help but reminisce about her own lost salad days.

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GRE Word of the Day

Coquette (n.) = A woman who habitually trifles with the affections of men; a flirt.

In Gone with the Wind, the heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, is an insatiable coquette. Many scenes depict her trifling with Rhett Butler’s heart.