What does anthropologist mean?
Word: Anthropologist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Anthropologist means a scientist who studies human beings: how they live, their customs and how societies developed.
How do you spell anthropologist?
Syllables: an - thro - pol - o - gist
Tricky part: The last part is gist, not gest: students write anthropologest or put a j for the soft g.
Watch out for: anthropologest, anthropolojist
Memory tip: End with gist, the main point: an anthropologist tries to get the gist of how people live.
Anthropologist in a sentence
Example 1: The anthropologist lived with a farming family to learn their customs.
Example 2: An anthropologist would be interested in how people in different places celebrate the harvest.
Example 3: My cousin studies to be an anthropologist at Delhi University.
Fun Fact
Margaret Mead, a well-known American anthropologist, lived on the islands of Samoa in the 1920s and wrote a famous book about growing up there.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) zoologist
b) psychologist
c) meteorologist
d) antropologist
Show answer
d) antropologist. The h after the t is missing; the human scientist begins anthro, as in anthropology.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The anthropoligist spent two summers recording folk songs in the villages of Nagaland.
a) recording
b) villages
c) anthropoligist
d) summers
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c) anthropoligist. Every ologist word has o, l, o, g in a row.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
pothogranisolt
a) anthropologist
b) anthropology
c) anthologist
d) anthropoid
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a) anthropologist. Anthropology ends in y and anthropoid needs a d; anthologist has no r or p, so letters would be left over.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would an anthropologist pack for a month in a village?
a) a net for catching insects
b) a telescope for the stars
c) a notebook for interviews
d) a stethoscope for patients
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c) a notebook for interviews
2. Which question would an anthropologist most want to answer?
a) Why do volcanoes erupt?
b) How fast does light travel?
c) How do bees make honey?
d) How do families here choose names?
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d) How do families here choose names?
