GRE Word List
LEVEE
a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed
The meaning of the word levee is a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| flounder | flatfish |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |