GRE Word List
SOLITUDE
the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion
The meaning of the word solitude is the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion.
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| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| sublimate | sublime |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |