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 |
|---|---|
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| trenchant | keen |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |