GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| slew | a large number |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| eventual | contingent |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |