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 |
|---|---|
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| seemly | good-looking |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |