GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |