GRE Word List

PUNGENT

sharply painful

The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.

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WordMeaning
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
juntaa council or committee for political or governmental purposes
clefta space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure
travailwork especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
weatherthe state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
exorbitantnot coming within the scope of the law
lachrymosegiven to tears or weeping : tearful
humanitariana person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist
incorporateto unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole
dogmaticcharacterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts