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 |
|---|---|
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |