GRE Word List
TRIBUNE
a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates
The meaning of the word tribune is a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |