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 |
|---|---|
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| kismet | fate |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |