GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |