GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |