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 |
|---|---|
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| 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 |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |