GRE Word List
LEVITY
excessive or unseemly frivolity
The meaning of the word levity is excessive or unseemly frivolity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| gargantuan | tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| cryptic | secret |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |