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 |
|---|---|
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| pundit | pandit |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| militate | to have weight or effect |