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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| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |