GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |