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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collected | gathered together |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |