GRE Word List
BACKSLIDE
to lapse morally or in the practice of religion
The meaning of the word backslide is to lapse morally or in the practice of religion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |