GRE Word List
ANTHROPOLOGIST
the science of human beings
The meaning of the word anthropologist is the science of human beings.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| berate | to scold or condemn vehemently and at length |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |