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 |
|---|---|
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| chapel | a subordinate or private place of worship: such as |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |