GRE Word List
SECESSION
withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement
The meaning of the word secession is withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| seasoned | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| obscure | dark |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |