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 |
|---|---|
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| belie | to give a false impression of |