Continuing, repeating and starting again
aspect
14 terms
TOEIC Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
Announcements about delays and resumptions rely on a narrow family of verbs, and the test exploits the fact that they are close but not equivalent. Continual interruptions happen again and again; a continuous tone never stops. Services resume, staff revert to old habits, a problem persists. Getting the wrong member of the family costs the point even when the general idea is right.
How to use this list
Study the list below, then check that you can say what separates each word from its closest neighbour.
Target vocabulary
resume
continually
revert
restart
maintain
continual
continuous
persevere
perpetuate
reopen
keep up
persist
ongoing
steady
This lesson is a word list. Its exercise is not published: the source we imported it from lost the formatting the questions relied on, and a key we cannot verify is worse than no key.