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 |
|---|---|
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |