GRE Word List

PIQUANT

engagingly provocative

The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.

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scapegoata goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
adamantunshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding
behemotha mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God
summationthe act or process of forming a sum : addition
subpoenaa writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure
cavalcadea procession (see procession
extemporaneouscomposed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu
cremateto subject to cremation
stricturean abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage
wagto be in motion : stir