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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| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| juncture | a point of time |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| courier | messenger |
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