GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |