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 |
|---|---|
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| dour | stern |