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 |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| convention | agreement |