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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| Word | Meaning |
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| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| opaque | blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see opacity |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |