GRE Word List
PLAUSIBLE
superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious
The meaning of the word plausible is superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |