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 |
|---|---|
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |