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.
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|---|---|
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |