GRE Word List
PUNGENT
sharply painful
The meaning of the word pungent is sharply painful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |