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 |
|---|---|
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| connoisseur | expert |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |