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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| prong | fork |
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| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |