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 |
|---|---|
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |