GRE Word List
SPECIOUS
having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic
The meaning of the word specious is having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |