GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| stringent | tight |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| codify | to reduce to a code |