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 |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |