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 |
|---|---|
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |