GRE Word List
DEMEAN
to lower in character, status, or reputation
The meaning of the word demean is to lower in character, status, or reputation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circlet | a little circle |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
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| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |