GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| ploy | escapade |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |