GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| misadventure | misfortune |