GRE Word List

TRENCHANT

keen

The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.

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gildto overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold
antiquityancient times
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collationa light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper
affablebeing pleasant and at ease in talking to others
interminablehaving or seeming to have no end
lionizeto treat as an object of great interest or importance
pedigreea register recording a line of ancestors
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