GRE Word List
MEMORIAL
serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative
The meaning of the word memorial is serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| array | to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire : adorn |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |