GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| cipher | zero |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| bulk | magnitude |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |