GRE Word List
COMMEMORATIVE
intended as a commemoration
The meaning of the word commemorative is intended as a commemoration.
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vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
faculty | ability |
suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |