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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| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |