GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| bullion | gold or silver considered as so much metal |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |