GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| appease | pacify |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |