GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| giddy | dizzy |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |