GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| franchise | the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |