Today let's learn a new word, adjourn!

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Hi and welcome to Let’s Word Up! Each day we post a word of the day to help you improve your English language skills.

Today’s word of the day is adjourn.

Adjourn is a doing word therefore it is a verb.

Adjourn has three meanings. Firstly it is to stop a meeting, legal case, or game with the intention of resuming it later. Secondly it is to go somewhere for rest or refreshment. Lastly it is to put off or postpone a resolution or legal sentence.

An example of the word adjourn used in a sentence would be:

An earthquake hit the town, so they had to adjourn the game until it was safe to resume.

Let's adjourn to the town centre for some lunch.

Or, She agreed to adjourn the sentence so that the new evidence could be investigated.

Synonyms: withdraw, retire, decamp, suspend, postpone.

Antonyms: assemble, continue, resume, persist, hang.

Thank you for listening, we hope that you found it helpful and interesting. Until next time.]

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