GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| random | a haphazard course |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |