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puncture, n. 1. perforating, boring, drilling, punching, pinking, puncturing; piercing, stabbing, lancinating, pricking, sticking; cutting, slitting, splitting, gashing, slashing.
2. hole, perforation, cut, incision, split, gash, scotch, rent, slit, slot; gap, space, interstice, breach, break; opening, orifice, aperture, mouth, vent, eyelet.
-v. 3. perforate, make a hole in, hole, honey comb, bore, drill, punch, pink; pierce, riddle, stab, lancinate, prick, stick; cut, slit, gash, slash, trepan; penetrate, pass through, transpierce, run through, SI. let the daylight in; impale, transfix, fix, spit, skewer; spike, spear.
pundit, n. sage, savant, learned man or woman, wise person; expert, authority, scholar; one of the cognoscenti, connoisseur, critic; master, proficient, adept, mavin, master hand; maestro, virtuoso, talent, genius, prodigy, Inf wizard, Inf whiz, U.S. SI. crackerjack, SI. sharp; pantologist, literate, bibliophile, bluestocking, man of letters, Archaic, clerk, aesthete; scholar, academician, philosopher, philosophe, theorist, thinker, thinking person; (all sometimes disparaging) pedant, highbrow, Inf. longhair, Inf know-it-all, Inf. walking encyclopedia, bookworm.
pungency, n. 1. acridity, sting, acrid taste or smell; sourness, tang, tartness, bitterness, nip, acidity, vinegar; savoriness, spiciness, flavorfulness, pepperiness, saltiness.
2. poignance, pathos, touchingness, patheticalness, piteousness; distressfulness, painfulness, heartbreak, sadness, melancholiness, sorrowfulness, seriousness; evocativeness, emotionalism, intensity, profoundness, keenness, acuteness; forlornness, woefulness, wistfulness.
3. causticity, trenchancy, incisiveness, cuttingness, mordancy; acrimony, acrimoniousness, sharpness, harshness, severity; sarcasm, edge, pointedness; sar-donicism, cynicism, contemptuousness.
4. piquancy, provocativeness, stimulation, excitation; spirit, liveliness, electricity, wittiness, ginger, snap.
pungent, adj. 1. (all usu. of taste or smelt) bitter, biting, acrid; acid, tart, harsh, sour, subacid, acetous, vinegarish, vinegary; acerb, acerbic, acidulous, acidulent, acescent, acidulated; stinging, burning, smarting, irritating.
2. (all usu. of taste or smelt) seasoned, hot, peppery, spicy, piquant, tangy, tart, salty; strong, highly flavored, flavorful, nippy, saporous, sapid.
3. distressful, distressing, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartrending; sad, unhappy, sorrowful, woeful, tearful, lamentable, mournful, regrettable; poignant, moving, touching; acute, intense, severe; painful, smarting, agonizing, tormenting, torturous, excruciating; grievous, crushing, deplorable, dreadful, brutal; oppressive, burdensome, consuming, racking; ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, tragic.
4. caustic, mordant, acrimonious, bitter, acrid, acidulous, acid, trenchant, cutting, incisive, slashing, scathing; penetrating, piercing, stinging, pricking, nipping, biting; astringent, severe, stern, austere, stringent; harsh, keen, pointed, sharp, sharp-tongued.
5. sarcastic, satirical, ironic, ironical, cynical; double-edged, edged; contemptuous, contumelious, taunting, teasing; scornful, mocking, derisive, derisory, sardonic.
6. witty, keen-witted, quick-witted, attic, clever, brilliant; spirited, lively, sprightly, sparkling, scintillating; stimulating, provocative, tantalizing, stirring; electric,
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