GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| exhume | disinter |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |