GRE Word List
CONCLAVE
a private meeting or secret assembly
The meaning of the word conclave is a private meeting or secret assembly.
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| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| heed | to pay attention |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |