GRE Word List
ICHTHYOLOGY
a branch of zoology that deals with fishes
The meaning of the word ichthyology is a branch of zoology that deals with fishes.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| conformist | one who conforms : a person who behaves in accordance with prevailing standards or customs and typically dislikes or avoids unconventional behavior |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| espouse | marry |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |