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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |