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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| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
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| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| puerile | juvenile |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |