GRE Word List

PIQUANT

engagingly provocative

The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.

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WordMeaning
braga pompous or boastful statement
vendorone that vends : seller
hurlrush
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
assumptiona taking to or upon oneself
adherentone who adheres to something: such as
qualifiedfitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
luminousemitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light
abjureto renounce upon oath