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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| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| docile | easily taught |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |