GRE Word List
EPISTEMOLOGIST
the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity
The meaning of the word epistemologist is the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |