GRE Word List
PIQUE
to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff
The meaning of the word pique is to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| warrant | sanction |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| foppish | foolish |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |