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 |
|---|---|
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| fabricate | invent |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |