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 |
|---|---|
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| devious | wandering |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| entity | being |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |