GRE Word List
MALODOROUS
having a bad odor
The meaning of the word malodorous is having a bad odor.
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troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
freebooter | pirate |
cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
striated | marked with striations or striae |