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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| approbation | commendation |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |