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 |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| postulate | demand |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |