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 |
|---|---|
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| faculty | ability |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| schism | division |