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 |
|---|---|
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| primal | original |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |