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.
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| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |