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 |
|---|---|
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |