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.

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veritablebeing in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary
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truisman undoubted or self-evident truth
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