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 |
|---|---|
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| addle | rotten |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |