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 |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |