GRE Word List
ACRID
sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating
The meaning of the word acrid is sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating.
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ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
courier | messenger |
benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |