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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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| eventual | contingent |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |