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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|---|---|
| edifice | building |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| retribution | recompense |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
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| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |