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 |
|---|---|
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| debonair | suave |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |