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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| sheer | unqualified |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |