Choose the word most similar in meaning to the word 'secluded', as used in the passage.

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable answer according to the underlined word per corresponding number in the passage.

A woman’s role has been circumscribed within a narrow domain where she is in just the lead role of a wife and a mother. Her individuality remains secluded. Comparatively no man’s mission is to be a father or a husband alone. Why does the society have such double standards? If both sexes share the responsibility of upbringing their children why woman alone is assigned to play the key role? She is considered menial to a man, though not morally or legally. Her supreme duty is to love, marry and rear children. There are many such females who do not get all this in succession, but that does not declare a woman’s defeat in her individuality. The growing sensationalism has excited the issue further. Literature and media all portray love so passionately and woman at the central position of this emotion. This leads to an exaggeration of the sentiment and display of feminism. A life, hence, devoid of love seems a failure and deprivation of marriage a shortcoming. But is it that the emotion (love) we recall so often present in all the marriages?