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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |