GRE Word List
FETID
having a heavy offensive smell
The meaning of the word fetid is having a heavy offensive smell.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |