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 |
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cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
whittle | a large knife |
tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |