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

WordMeaning
sturdyfirmly built or constituted : stout
ariaair
restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
sallowany of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark
forerunnerone that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as
mulctfine
enduringlasting
climeclimate
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
codicila legal instrument made to modify an earlier will