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 |
|---|---|
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| spare | not being used |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| steep | lofty |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |