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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| wont | accustomed |
| mendicant | beggar |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| conflagration | fire |