GRE Word List
ABSCISSION
the act or process of cutting off : removal
The meaning of the word abscission is the act or process of cutting off : removal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |