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

WordMeaning
boona timely benefit : blessing
complacencyself-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
abodethe place where one lives : home
unscathedwholly unharmed : not injured
imperilto bring into peril : endanger
memorializeto address or petition by a memorial
fretto eat or gnaw into : corrode
beholdenbeing under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted
martyra person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion
rakishof, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute