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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
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| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| 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 |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| reckon | count |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
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