conspicuous
easy to notice or clearly visible
Roots
- -ous / -ious: full of or marked by a quality
- com-: with, together, complete, or intensified
- spec / spic: look or see
Other words with the spec / spic root
- circumspect: cautious and careful
- inspection: careful looking or examination
- perspicacious: keenly perceptive
- perspicacity: keenness of understanding or insight
- specious: seemingly plausible but actually misleading
- spectacle: something striking to see
- spectacles: glasses used for seeing
Spec / spic gives seeing. Conspicuous things stand where the eye cannot miss them.
The typo was conspicuous once the teacher circled it in red.
Conspicuous is visibility. Specious is only appearance. Put them together: conspicuous things are easy to see; specious arguments only look good until you inspect them.