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 |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| swill | wash |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or the intellect |