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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| facade | the front of a building |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |