GRE Word List
ANTHROPOLOGIST
the science of human beings
The meaning of the word anthropologist is the science of human beings.
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| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
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| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |