GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| microcosm | a little world |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |