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Commemorate

/kəˈmɛməˌreɪt/
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(verb) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.

They were erected to commemorate a certain event or to tell an ancestral legend.
Jews don't celebrate the holocaust, they commemorate it.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We built this monument to ____ the heroes of the war.

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