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 |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |