GRE Word List
MEMORIAL
serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative
The meaning of the word memorial is serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| vixen | a female fox |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| schism | division |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |