GRE Word List
DEMERIT
offense
The meaning of the word demerit is offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| raiment | clothing |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |