| word | recluse |
|---|---|
| definition | A person who lives withdrawn from society. |
| eg_sentence | The lonely farmhouse was home to a middle-aged recluse, a stooped, bearded man who would never answer the door when someone knocked. |
| explanation | Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes were two of the most famously reclusive celebrities of modern times. She had been a great international star, called the most beautiful woman in the world; he had been an aircraft manufacturer and film producer, with one of the greatest fortunes in the world. It seems that Garbo's reclusiveness resulted from her desire to leave her public with only the youthful image of her face. Hughes was terrified of germs, though that was the least of his problems |
| IPA | rɪˈklus |
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