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 |
|---|---|
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| scintilla | spark |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |