GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| modish | fashionable |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| annuity | a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |