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 |
|---|---|
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |