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 |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| forebears | ancestor |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| actuary | clerk |
| provident | frugal |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
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