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 |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| endue | provide |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| commune | talk over |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| postulate | demand |