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 |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| devious | wandering |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |