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piquant

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore P words

pleasantly sharp, stimulating, or provocative

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Piquant in a sentence

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The memoir's piquant anecdotes kept readers thoroughly entertained.

Synonyms
tangyspicyzestyprovocative
Antonyms
blandinsipiddull

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Verbal · Text Completion

The committee's report was praised for its candor, yet its central recommendation was so blank that administrators could cite it to justify nearly any policy they had already resolved to pursue.

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Piquant (adjective) means pleasantly sharp, stimulating, or provocative
Here is piquant used in an example sentence: "The memoir's piquant anecdotes kept readers thoroughly entertained."
Common synonyms for piquant include tangy, spicy, zesty, provocative.
Antonyms of piquant include bland, insipid, dull.
Piquant is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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