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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |