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 |
|---|---|
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |