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 |
|---|---|
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| fiend | devil |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |