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 |
|---|---|
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| superannuated | outmoded |