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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| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| shambles | a meat market |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |