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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |