GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |