GRE Word List
DEMERIT
offense
The meaning of the word demerit is offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |