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 |
|---|---|
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| savory | having savor: such as |
| advocacy | the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see advocate |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |