GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| irremediable | not remediable |