GRE Word List
FLIPPANT
lacking proper respect or seriousness
The meaning of the word flippant is lacking proper respect or seriousness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |