GRE Word List
FALLACIOUS
embodying a fallacy
The meaning of the word fallacious is embodying a fallacy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |