GRE Word List
COMMEMORATIVE
intended as a commemoration
The meaning of the word commemorative is intended as a commemoration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| reckon | count |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |