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 |
|---|---|
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| endue | provide |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |