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
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|---|---|
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| mulct | fine |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |