GRE Word List
DEBASE
to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character
The meaning of the word debase is to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| collusion | secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |