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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| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
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| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
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| modish | fashionable |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
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| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |