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 |
|---|---|
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| condign | deserved |