GRE Word List
DEMERIT
offense
The meaning of the word demerit is offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| bliss | complete happiness |