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 |
|---|---|
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| endue | provide |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| leave-taking | departure |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |