GRE Word List
ENTOMOLOGY
a branch of zoology that deals with insects
The meaning of the word entomology is a branch of zoology that deals with insects.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disquietude | anxiety |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |