GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
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|---|---|
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
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| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |