GRE Word List
DEMERIT
offense
The meaning of the word demerit is offense.
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|---|---|
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |