Resumes
7 lettersnoun/verbcommonUpdated February 2026
Definition
Documents summarising one's education and work experience for job applications, or begins again after a pause. The verb form means to restart or continue something that was interrupted.
“After the brief intermission, the orchestra resumes playing the second movement of the symphony.”
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Multiple E's and U make this distinctive; RE- prefix is common
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Scrabble
Worth 9 points; good for using multiple common vowels
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