GRE Word List
POIGNANCY
the quality or state of being poignant
The meaning of the word poignancy is the quality or state of being poignant.
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| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
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| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
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