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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |