GRE Word List

PUNGENT

sharply painful

The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.

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deterrentserving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter
insuperableincapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved
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libidoinstinctual 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
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audaciousintrepidly daring : adventurous
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