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 |
|---|---|
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| wry | twist |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |