GRE Word List
DEMEANOR
behavior toward others : outward manner
The meaning of the word demeanor is behavior toward others : outward manner.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |