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 |
|---|---|
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| comestible | edible |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| overthrow | overturn |
| sleek | slick |