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 |
|---|---|
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| bog | wet spongy ground |