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 |
|---|---|
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |