GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |