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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
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| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| steep | lofty |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |