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 |
|---|---|
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| categorical | absolute |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| willowy | abounding with willows |