GRE Word List

PERTINENT

having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand

The meaning of the word pertinent is having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand.

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grossglaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
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denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
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