GRE Word List
COMMEMORATE
to call to remembrance
The meaning of the word commemorate is to call to remembrance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sheer | unqualified |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |