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 |
|---|---|
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| politic | political |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |