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 |
|---|---|
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| colloquy | conversation |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| prong | fork |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |