GRE Word List
SCRUPULOUS
having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper
The meaning of the word scrupulous is having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper.
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| forebears | ancestor |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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