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 |
|---|---|
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |