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The word of the day is ‘spurious’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Counterfeit
2. Fake
3. Not being what it purports to be
4. False
1. Hindi – Jaalee
2. Spanish – Espurio
3. French – Faux
4. Mandarin – Wěi
1. The State is not to be forgotten for some spurious personal individuality.
2. The explanations given by the rabbis of our day are spurious.
3. They are now forced to place this spurious article in the field.
4. There is, however, a good deal of spurious family affection.
5. Some of the spurious Greek works of the Hippocratic collection have also case notes
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
bogus, false, phony, specious, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bent, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy, ersatz, faked, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, unreal, fake, not genuine, fictitious, counterfeit, fraudulent, trumped-up, fabricated, manufactured, fictitious, invalid, fallacious, meretricious, phoney, pseudo, cod, adulterine etc.
genuine, real, true,valid, authentic, honest, very true, veritable, pleasing, extraordinary, error-free, accurate, analytic, aboveboard
Quotation:
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
Philip K.Dick
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