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 |
|---|---|
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| motley | variegated in color |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |