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 |
|---|---|
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| delve | excavate |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
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| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| ebullient | boiling |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
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