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 |
|---|---|
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |