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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mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
peripherythe perimeter of a circle or other closed curve
graduateto receive an academic degree or diploma
verbalizeto express something in words
ordeala primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control
outspokendirect and open in speech or expression : frank
extemporaneouscomposed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu
deignto condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop
ambleto go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter
censora person who supervises conduct and morals: such as