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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| dour | stern |
| 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") |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
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