GRE Word List

PUNGENT

sharply painful

The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.

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circumventto manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
covertnot openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled
inertlacking the power to move
laceto draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets
vernacularusing a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
modishfashionable
wistfulfull of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
annuitya sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals
fertileproducing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive
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