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 |
|---|---|
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| trappings | outward signs |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| 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 |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| wanton | merciless |