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 |
|---|---|
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| dissension | disagreement |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |