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 |
|---|---|
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| nourishment | food |
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |