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 |
|---|---|
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |