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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conscripta conscripted person (such as a military recruit)
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dorsalan ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
madrigala medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form
abstainto choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
initiateto cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going
wispa small handful (as of hay or straw)
anathemasomeone or something intensely disliked or loathed
bogwet spongy ground