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 |
|---|---|
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |