GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| querulous | habitually complaining |