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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| 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 |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
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| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| expiate | to make amends for |
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| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| eventual | contingent |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |