KEY: Pungent.

SYN: Pricking, piercing, acrid, mordant, biting, stinging, stimulating, keen, trenchant, caustic, piquant, sarcastic.

ANT: Soothing, mellow, luscious, unctuous.

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KEY: Punish.

SYN: Chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, whip, scourge.

ANT: Reward, recompense, remunerate, indemnify.

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KEY: Puny.

SYN: Petty, undeveloped, undersized, feeble, pigmy, dwarfish, small, inferior, tiny.