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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restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
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prepossessingcreating prejudice
analogoussimilar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail
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engenderbeget
meandera winding path or course
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