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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |