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 |
|---|---|
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| consort | associate |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |