GRE Word List

DEMISE

death

The meaning of the word demise is death.

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casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
glossa surface luster or brightness : shine
parcheddeprived of natural moisture
privationan act or instance of depriving : deprivation
palettea thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
volatilecharacterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
perimeterthe boundary of a closed plane figure
labyrintha place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys
piquantengagingly provocative