GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |