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 |
|---|---|
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| contrive | devise |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |