de-volution

Main Entry:
decadence [dek-uh-duhns, dih-keyd-ns]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: perversion; deterioration of morality
Synonyms: corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism
Antonyms: humility, morality
Main Entry: degeneracy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: decay, deterioration
Synonyms: atrophy, debasement, declination, decline, decrease, depravation, devolution, downfall, downgrade
Antonyms: development, improvement
Main Entry: delegation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assignment of responsibility
Synonyms: appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust
Notes: a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group
Antonyms: keeping
Main Entry: downfall
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disgrace, ruin
Synonyms: atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, declension, degeneracy, degeneration, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, devolution, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, on the rocks, overthrow, rack and ruin, road to ruin, ruination, storm, the skids, undoing
Antonyms: accomplishment, ascent, rise, success
Main Entry: lapse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: backsliding
Synonyms: decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop, fall, recession, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression
Antonyms: progress
Main Entry: recidivation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lapse
Synonyms: backslide, backsliding, decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop*, fall, recession, recidivism, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression
Main Entry: recidivism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lapse
Synonyms: backslide, backsliding, decadence, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, drop*, fall, recession, recidivation, regression, relapse, retrogradation, retrogression
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