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 |
|---|---|
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| sheer | unqualified |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |