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.

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WordMeaning
gestateto carry in the uterus during pregnancy
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evoketo call forth or up: such as
compliantready or disposed to comply : submissive
ripto tear or split apart or open
empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
optimumthe amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end
aestheticof, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful
collateto compare critically
pantomimepantomimist