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 |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| refrain | curb |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| slaughter | the act of killing |