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 |
|---|---|
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| edifice | building |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |