GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| digression | the 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 |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |