GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |