GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
purge | to clear of guilt |
potentate | ruler |
superannuated | outmoded |
patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |