GRE Word List
COMMEMORATIVE
intended as a commemoration
The meaning of the word commemorative is intended as a commemoration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |