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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| wry | twist |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |