GRE Word List
RELAPSE
the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding
The meaning of the word relapse is the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| refrain | curb |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |