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 |
|---|---|
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| cryptic | secret |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |