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 |
|---|---|
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| retiring | reserved |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |