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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| provenance | origin |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |