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 |
|---|---|
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |