懂你英语 Level5 Unit3 Part4 Vocabulary - Decision-Making Verbs

Resume, to continue or start again after a pause.

After a short interruption, our work resumed and we worked for another hour.

Work on the project resumed once we passed the safety inspection.

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Interrupt, to stop something in progress.

I hate to be interrupted when I'm working, but sometimes it's necessary.

It's difficult to have a conversation with her because she always interrupts.

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Reconsider, to reassess or think again about changing something.

I was planning to vote against him, but after hearing him speak, I'm going to reconsider.

I didn't want to hire her at first, but then I reconsidered and offered her the job.

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Conclude, to reach a decision, to end something or summarize the main points.

To conclude my presentation, here is a summary of my recommendations.

After hearing arguments for and against the project, we have reached a conclusion.

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Anticipate, to think in advance, to predict what's ahead.

I won the game, because it was easy to anticipate my opponent's next move.

He try to anticipate what we are going to do, but he was completely wrong, so he lost.

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