GRE Word List

FORUM

the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business

The meaning of the word forum is the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business.

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tenantone who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another
decimateto select by lot and kill every tenth man of
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sententiousgiven to or abounding in aphoristic expression
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