GRE Word List
DEMURE
reserved
The meaning of the word demure is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |