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 |
|---|---|
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| cipher | zero |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| imprecation | curse |