GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |