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 |
|---|---|
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |