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 |
|---|---|
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
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| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| imbue | endow |