GRE Word List
MEMOIR
an official note or report : memorandum
The meaning of the word memoir is an official note or report : memorandum.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |