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 |
|---|---|
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| 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 |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |