GRE Word List
MEMORIAL
serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative
The meaning of the word memorial is serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |