GRE Word List

TRENCHANT

keen

The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.

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maimto mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously
abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
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litigationthe act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating
obtusenot pointed or acute : blunt
shrivelto draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture
phariseea 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
renditionthe act or result of rendering something: such as
intoxicateto excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished
misadventuremisfortune