GRE Word List
CENTURION
an officer commanding a Roman century
The meaning of the word centurion is an officer commanding a Roman century.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |