GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |