facile
achieved too easily and therefore superficial or shallow
Word origin: From Latin facilis, easy to do, from facere, to do.
Facile in a sentence
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The pundit offered a facile explanation that ignored the conflict's deep historical roots.
The book offers a facile explanation of the crisis that ignores its tangled economic causes.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.
Using “facile” well
Facile is usually pejorative, faulting an answer for being too easy and therefore shallow, not genuinely simple. Beware the false friend: it does not mean merely fluent or skillful.
More GRE words starting with F
to make up something false in order to deceive
a deliberately false statement or invented account intended to mislead
a person who invents elaborate or untruthful stories
treating serious matters with inappropriate or flippant humor
to make an action or process easier or more achievable
a small, organized group within a larger one, especially one that is in opposition
inclined to form rival groups and provoke internal dissent
artificially produced or contrived rather than genuine or natural
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