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 |
|---|---|
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |