GRE Word List
OBSTETRICIAN
a physician specializing in obstetrics
The meaning of the word obstetrician is a physician specializing in obstetrics.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |