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 |
|---|---|
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| antecede | precede |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| opus | work |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |