GRE Word List
ROSTRUM
an ancient Roman platform for public orators
The meaning of the word rostrum is an ancient Roman platform for public orators.
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| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| encumber | weigh down |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |