GRE Word List

PIQUANT

engagingly provocative

The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.

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pinionthe terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges
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morosehaving a sullen and gloomy disposition
miscreantunbelieving
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