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severance

nounCommon GRE wordMore S words

the act of ending or breaking a connection

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In a sentence

Severance in a sentence

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The severance of diplomatic ties shocked observers.

Synonyms
separationrupturesplit
Antonyms
unionconnection

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Severance (noun) means the act of ending or breaking a connection
Here is severance used in an example sentence: "The severance of diplomatic ties shocked observers."
Common synonyms for severance include separation, rupture, split.
Antonyms of severance include union, connection.
Severance is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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