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 |
|---|---|
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |