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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |