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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| exhume | disinter |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |