GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| 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 |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |