GRE Word List
CESSATION
a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop
The meaning of the word cessation is a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |