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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| demented | mad |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| fauna | animal life |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |