GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| bauble | trinket |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |