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pungent

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore P words

having a sharply strong taste or smell

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Pungent in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing pungent in a sentence.

The pungent aroma of garlic filled the kitchen.

Synonyms
sharpacridbitingcaustic
Antonyms
blandmildinsipid
Common questions

Questions about “pungent

Pungent (adjective) means having a sharply strong taste or smell
Here is pungent used in an example sentence: "The pungent aroma of garlic filled the kitchen."
Common synonyms for pungent include sharp, acrid, biting, caustic.
Antonyms of pungent include bland, mild, insipid.
Pungent is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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