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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| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| mortician | undertaker |
| trenchant | keen |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |