GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| concur | to express agreement |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |