GRE Word List
SECT
a dissenting or schismatic religious body
The meaning of the word sect is a dissenting or schismatic religious body.
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aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
remediable | capable of being remedied |
tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |