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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| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |