GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| pending | during |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |