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 |
|---|---|
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |