GRE Word List
SPURIOUS
born to parents not married to each other
The meaning of the word spurious is born to parents not married to each other.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |