GRE Word List
COMMEMORATE
to call to remembrance
The meaning of the word commemorate is to call to remembrance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| myriad | ten thousand |