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 |
|---|---|
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| docile | easily taught |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |