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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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| mischance | bad luck |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |