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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |