GRE Word List
MEMORIAL
serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative
The meaning of the word memorial is serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| cohorts | companion |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |