GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| quarry | game |