GRE Word List
SECESSION
withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement
The meaning of the word secession is withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |