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 |
|---|---|
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| dingy | dirty |