GRE vocabulary
Inchoate
Not yet completely formed or organized; rudimentary; just begun.
Example
"The artist's early sketches were inchoate, but they hinted at the masterpiece to come."
Etymology
From Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare 'to begin, to start work on'.
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