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 |
|---|---|
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| reverie | daydream |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| coin | corner |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
