GRE Word List

LEVITY

excessive or unseemly frivolity

The meaning of the word levity is excessive or unseemly frivolity.

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unfetterto free from fetters
reminiscenceapprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence
promulgateto make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim
moresthe fixed morally binding customs of a particular group
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loathunwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant
apostateone who commits apostasy
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torquea force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion
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