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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |