GRE Word List
SEMBLANCE
outward and often specious appearance or show : form
The meaning of the word semblance is outward and often specious appearance or show : form.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| savory | having savor: such as |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| prank | trick |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |