GRE Word List
FLIPPANT
lacking proper respect or seriousness
The meaning of the word flippant is lacking proper respect or seriousness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| dull | tedious |
| attire | to put garments on : dress |