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 |
|---|---|
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| thespian | actor |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |