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 |
|---|---|
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| sibling | sib |
| hurl | rush |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| leave-taking | departure |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |