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 |
|---|---|
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| benison | blessing |