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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
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| reverie | daydream |