GRE Word List

LEVITATE

to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation

The meaning of the word levitate is to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation.

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repineto feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
retaliateto return like for like
xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
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