GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |