GRE Word List
LEVITY
excessive or unseemly frivolity
The meaning of the word levity is excessive or unseemly frivolity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| grudging | unwilling |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| sober | not intoxicated |