Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

specious

 

seemingly sound or logical, but not actually so

 

Specious logic is the handmaid of uncontrolled emotion.

 

Related English word: speciousness

 

Latin root words: speciosus, speciosa, speciosum - beautiful, splendid; pretended, specious; species, speciei, f. - appearance 

 

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