GRE Word List
FACETIOUS
joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish
The meaning of the word facetious is joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| quicksilver | mercury |
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| verge | brink |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
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