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 |
|---|---|
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| rank | relative standing or position |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| sheer | unqualified |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |