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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| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
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| sentinel | sentry |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
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| ravenous | rapacious |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
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| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |