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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latentpresent and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
quirkan abrupt twist or curve
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looma frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace
panegyrica eulogistic oration or writing
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ployescapade
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inuredto accustom to accept something undesirable