GRE vocabulary
facetious
treating serious matters with inappropriate or flippant humor
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a deliberately false statement or invented account intended to mislead
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achieved too easily and therefore superficial or shallow
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Questions about “facetious”
Facetious (adjective) means treating serious matters with inappropriate or flippant humor
Here is facetious used in an example sentence: "His facetious remarks during the memorial struck many as deeply insensitive."
Common synonyms for facetious include flippant, jocular, tongue-in-cheek.
Antonyms of facetious include serious, earnest, solemn.
Facetious is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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