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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murkycharacterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
denounceto pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil
crotchetygiven to crotchets (see crotchet
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ecstasya state of overwhelming emotion
incarnateinvested with bodily and especially human nature and form
multifarioushaving or occurring in great variety : diverse
derelictabandoned especially by the owner or occupant
slitherto slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface
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