GRE Word List

TRIBULATION

distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution

The meaning of the word tribulation is distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution.

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ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
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founderone that founds or establishes
incentivesomething that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
squabblea noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters
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irreconcilableimpossible to reconcile
recurrentrunning or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course