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 |
|---|---|
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| paradigm | example |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |