GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| junket | trip |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
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| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |