GRE Word List

FETID

having a heavy offensive smell

The meaning of the word fetid is having a heavy offensive smell.

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aggregateformed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective
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circumventto manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
massthe liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist
extraneousexisting on or coming from the outside
cadaverousof or relating to a corpse
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veritythe quality or state of being true or real
slanderto utter slander against : defame