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

WordMeaning
apparitionan unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon
entrancepower or permission to enter : admission
peonany of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as
libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
casualsubject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance
jostleto come in contact or into collision
abjureto renounce upon oath
talonthe claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey
disgruntleto make ill-humored or discontented
egotisticalcharacterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance