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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |