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.
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Word | Meaning |
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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 |