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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| cohorts | companion |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| shambles | a meat market |