GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| hurl | rush |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |