GRE Word List
DEMISE
death
The meaning of the word demise is death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| wanton | merciless |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |