GRE Word List

PUNGENT

sharply painful

The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.

Random words

WordMeaning
orgysecret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing
concessionthe act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat)
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
decipherdecode
abstractdisassociated from any specific instance
debonairsuave
tundraa level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs
modicuma small portion : a limited quantity
psychea princess loved by Cupid
deprecateto express disapproval of