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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|---|---|
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| implode | to burst inward |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| pilfer | steal |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| modish | fashionable |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |