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 |
|---|---|
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
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| plait | pleat |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |