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May 27, 2012
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re•sump•tive



Pronunciation: (ri-zump'tiv), [key]
—adj.
1. that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
2. that tends to resume or repeat: a speech so resumptive that its point was lost.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

resumptionresumptivepronoun
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