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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| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |