GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |