GRE Word List
RESUMPTION
an act or instance of resuming : recommencement
The meaning of the word resumption is an act or instance of resuming : recommencement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |