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 |
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| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| finery | ornament |