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 |
|---|---|
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| antecede | precede |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| plane | airplane |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |