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 |
|---|---|
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| environ | encircle |
| meticulous | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |