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 |
|---|---|
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| cryptic | secret |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| mulct | fine |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |