Specious GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

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Specious GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ˈspiː.ʃəs/ (adj) seemingly true but actually false, baseless, illusory, erroneous, sophistic, spurious, ostensible, inaccurate, unfounded, sham, fallacious, phony, deceptive, bogus, wrong, misleading Such a lame and specious excuse for a hotel… X Hotel is totally not worth their published rates. so I suggest that you find other hotels with the same …

Dissemble GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

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Dissemble GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /dɪˈsem.bļ/ (verb) to hide or conceal your real feelings or intentions, prevaricate, camouflage, put on false appearance, sham, mislead, pretend, act, masquerade, mask, cover up, dissimulate, disguise, feign, keep a stiff upper lip When we encounter someone we dislike, we may momentarily display a reflexive disgust expression, only to follow-up with …

Oblique GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

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Oblique GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /əʊˈbliːk/ (adj) indirect and not straightforward, devious, misleading, evasive, implicit, implied – sloping and joining something at an angle that is not a right angle, not parallel or perpendicular, slanting, slanted, diagonal, tilted, tangential There are three kinds of asymptotes: horizontal, vertical and oblique. For curves given by the graph of …

Deceive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 6

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Deceive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 6 Deceive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 6 /dɪˈsiːv/ (verb) to play a trick on someone and persuade them that something false is true, betray, cheat, defraud, swindle, mislead, delude, hoax, beguile, outwit, outfox, trick, take in, lie to, con, misinform, dupe In life, the deepest wounds are commonly …

Chimerical 1100 Words You Need Week 22 Day 4

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Chimerical 1100 Words You Need Chimerical 1100 Words You Need /kaɪˈmer.ɪ.kəl/ (adj) Watch this video on YouTube having no external reality, imaginary, relating to fantasy, whimsical, unreal, deceptive, misleading, specious, illusory Impossible or forbidden colors aren’t the only colors the brain can see although the eye cannot produce them from the visible spectrum. For example, …

Delude 1100 Words You Need Week 22 Day 4

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Delude 1100 Words You Need Delude 1100 Words You Need /dɪˈluːd/ (verb) Watch this video on YouTube to make someone believe something that is not true, deceive, guile, mislead, cheat, con, fool, trick, dupe, pull the wool over someone’s eyes They’re not necessarily more unhappy because they secretly know the truth. Here’s an example: somebody …

Mendacious 1100 Words You Need Week 19 Day 2

Mendacious 1100 words you need week 19 day 2 with flashcards for IELTS, TOEFL & GRE

Mendacious 1100 Words You Need Mendacious 1100 Words You Need /menˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ (adj) not truthful, dishonest, false, unreliable, misleading, deceitful, lying, inaccurate, spurious, fallacious: The most virulent enemy of this colony, the most flagrant detractor of the resources of this colony, had never ventured to make a mendacious statement as that—a statement which was absolutely untrue. …

Labyrinth 1100 Words You Need Week 17 Day 3

Labyrinth 1100 Words you need week 17 day 3 with flashcards for IELTS & TOEFL & GRE

Labyrinth 1100 Words You Need Labyrinth 1100 Words You Need /ˈlæb.ə.rɪnθ/ (noun) a set of confusing and misleading passages where you probably get lost, maze, warren, web, tangle, jumble, muddle something which is very baffling or confusing, dilemma Most people are familiar with mazes, especially those built of hedges, such as the famous example at …

Fallacious 1100 Words You Need Week 17 Day 1

Fallacious 1100 Words You Need Fallacious 1100 Words You Need /fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/ (adj) Definition misleading and not correct, containing mistaken belief, erroneous, wrong, deceptive, false: Example Argumentum abusi fallacia (Latin for “argument of the abused fallacy”) is the incorrect use of a formal or informal logical fallacy. As there is an absolute myriad of fallacies to …

Garbled 1100 Words You Need Week 11 Day 1

Garbled 1100 Words You Need Week 11 Day 1

Garbled 1100 Words You Need Garbled 1100 Words You Need /ˈgɑː.bļd/ (adj) misleading and confusing, obscure and unclear, ambiguous and hazy, nebulous, distorted, mangled, jumbled, confused, muddled, twisted, misconstrued, encrypted: We need an expert to decode the garbled message inscribed on the cave wall. Antonyms clear Parts of Speech Verb: garble Noun: garble