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Tribunal
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Any genuinely independent tribunal would have put the leaders of all sides on trial.
- Senior officers in his intelligence services are likely to figure on the charge sheet if the tribunal ever sees the light of day.
- More proof, as if you needed it, that the military tribunal system can't work.
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Word Origin & History
tribunal
1447, from O.Fr. tribunal (13c.), from L. tribunal "platform for the seat of magistrates, elevation, embankment," from tribunus "official in ancient Rome, magistrate," lit. "head of a tribe," from 'tribus (see tribe). Hence, a court of justice or judicial assembly (1590).
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