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 |
|---|---|
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| fester | to generate pus |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| hallowed | holy |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| subjugate | to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer |