GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |