This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (SPEE-shuss)
Adjective:
1. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
2. lacking sincerity
Synonyms: Synonyms include: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, spurious
From Vocabulary.com: “Use specious to describe an argument that seems to be good, correct, or logical, but is not so.”
Example:
“The absentee landlord said he couldn’t have possibly known about the problems since he’d not visited the property for a year, but the age and extent of the rot in the garage suggested specious reasoning on his part.”
