GRE Word List
PIQUANT
engagingly provocative
The meaning of the word piquant is engagingly provocative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| canny | clever |
| afterlife | an existence after death |