GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |