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 |
|---|---|
| refrain | curb |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |