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 |
|---|---|
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| retrench | cut down |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |