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 |
|---|---|
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| license | permission to act |
| 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 |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |