GRE Word List
ORNITHOLOGIST
a branch of zoology dealing with birds
The meaning of the word ornithologist is a branch of zoology dealing with birds.
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| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |