GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| paste | a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls |
| circlet | a little circle |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |