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 |
|---|---|
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |