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Associations of "Back and forth" (30 Words)
| anachronism | Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred. It is anachronism to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing. |
| backslide | Drop to a lower level, as in one’s morals or standards. There are many things that can cause slimmers to backslide. |
| backward | (of a fielding position) behind an imaginary line passing through the stumps at the batsman’s end at right angles to the wicket. Backward square leg. |
| backwards | In reverse of the usual direction or order. Count backwards from twenty to ten. |
| behind | A kick that sends the ball over a behind line or a touch that sends it between the inner posts scoring one point. She slid inelegantly down a few steps on her behind. |
| degeneracy | Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles. A slide into moral degeneracy. |
| degeneration | Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland. |
| discontinuity | A break in or lack of continuity. There is no significant discontinuity between modern and primitive societies. |
| inverse | Opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or effect. Inverse logarithms. |
| later | At some eventual time in the future. A later symptom of the disease. |
| past | A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past. The past year. |
| posterior | Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth. The posterior part of the gut. |
| posthumous | Occurring or coming into existence after a person’s death. He was awarded a posthumous Military Cross. |
| regress | Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. They would not regress to pre technological tribalism. |
| regression | A lessening of the severity of a disease or its symptoms. It is easy to blame unrest on economic regression. |
| regressive | Relating to or marked by psychological regression. Regressive aspects of recent local government reform. |
| relapse | A failure to maintain a higher state. He responded well to treatment but then suffered a relapse. |
| restoration | The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France in 1814 following the fall of Napoleon Louis XVIII was recalled from exile by Talleyrand. Published restorations are dodgy based on single bones. |
| retrace | Trace (something) back to its source or beginning. He began to retrace his steps to the station car park. |
| retreat | Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. It becomes so hot that the lizards retreat into the shade. |
| retroactive | Affecting things past. Retroactive tax increase. |
| retrograde | Show retrograde motion. A retrograde flow. |
| retrogression | The process of returning to an earlier state, typically a worse one. A retrogression to 19th century attitudes. |
| retrospect | Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember. In retrospect. |
| retrospective | Concerned with or related to the past. Our survey was retrospective. |
| return | A returning officer s announcement of an election result. A return flight. |
| reversion | A property to which someone has the right of reversion. He was given a promise of the reversion of Boraston s job. |
| revert | Reply or respond to someone. We texted both Farah and Shirish but neither of them reverted. |
| throwback | A reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic. A lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties. |
| ventral | Toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal. Ventral or pelvic fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped. |