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 |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |