GRE Word List
FACETIOUS
joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish
The meaning of the word facetious is joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| portly | dignified |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |