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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| vapid | lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit : flat |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| laud | praise |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |