GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |