GRE Word List
LECTERN
a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker
The meaning of the word lectern is a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker.
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| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
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| hurl | rush |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| antiquity | ancient times |