GRE Word List
LEVITY
excessive or unseemly frivolity
The meaning of the word levity is excessive or unseemly frivolity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| significant | having meaning |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| charlatan | quack |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |