GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precipitous | precipitate |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| exploit | deed |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |