GRE Word List
COMMEMORATE
to call to remembrance
The meaning of the word commemorate is to call to remembrance.
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opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
rickety | affected with rickets |
somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |