GRE Word List
TRENCHANT
keen
The meaning of the word trenchant is keen.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |