GRE Word List
RANCID
having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition
The meaning of the word rancid is having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| random | a haphazard course |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |