GRE Word List
MEMENTO
something that serves to warn or remind
The meaning of the word memento is something that serves to warn or remind.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| enduring | lasting |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |