GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| fluke | flatfish |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |