GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
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|---|---|
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| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
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| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
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