GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| redress | to set right : remedy |