GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| distend | extend |