GRE Word List
RECIDIVISM
a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior
The meaning of the word recidivism is a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| acetic | vinegary |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| query | question |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |