GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |