GRE Word List
TAXONOMIST
the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics
The meaning of the word taxonomist is the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |