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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
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| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |