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 |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| ramification | branch |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| realm | kingdom |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |