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 |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| paste | a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |