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 |
|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |