GRE Word List
COMMEMORATIVE
intended as a commemoration
The meaning of the word commemorative is intended as a commemoration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |