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Associations of "Push back" (30 Words)
| anachronism | A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism that has survived the passing years. |
| backslide | Relapse into bad ways or error. There are many things that can cause slimmers to backslide. |
| backward | Having made less than normal progress. Lovers of the past looking fondly backward. |
| backwards | At or to or toward the back or rear. Penny glanced backwards. |
| behind | A kick that sends the ball over a behind line or a touch that sends it between the inner posts scoring one point. England were still 382 runs behind. |
| converse | Conversation. It will be difficult in these converses not to talk of secular matter. |
| degeneracy | The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities. The degeneracy of later Roman work. |
| degeneration | The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland. |
| discontinuity | The state of having intervals or gaps; lack of continuity. There is no significant discontinuity between modern and primitive societies. |
| dorsal | On or relating to the upper side or back of an animal, plant, or organ. A dorsal view of the body. |
| inverse | Produced from or related to something else by a process of inversion. Numerous studies have shown an inverse relationship between exercise and the risk of heart disease. |
| later | At a time in the near future; soon or afterwards. Later on it will be easier. |
| past | A past tense or form of a verb. Forget the past. |
| posterior | Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end. A date posterior to the first Reform Bill. |
| posthumous | Occurring or coming into existence after a person’s death. A posthumous daughter. |
| regress | Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of a variable against or on another variable. A regress to the nursery. |
| regression | A lessening of the severity of a disease or its symptoms. There was 46 7 per cent complete regression in the placebo group. |
| regressive | Adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases. Regressive aspects of recent local government reform. |
| relapse | (of a sick or injured person) deteriorate after a period of improvement. Two of the patients in remission relapsed after 48 months. |
| retrace | Trace (something) back to its source or beginning. I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway. |
| retreat | Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. The bishop is away on his annual retreat. |
| retroactive | Affecting things past. A big retroactive tax increase. |
| retrograde | Show retrograde motion. The retrograde form of these inscriptions. |
| retrogression | The process of returning to an earlier state, typically a worse one. A retrogression to 19th century attitudes. |
| retrospect | Contemplation of things past. In retrospect. |
| retrospective | (of a statute or legal decision) taking effect from a date in the past. Retrospective self justification. |
| return | A key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return in a word processing program or to indicate the end of a command or data string. Return a compliment. |
| reversion | A property to which someone has the right of reversion. The reversion of property. |
| revert | Return to (a previous state, practice, topic, etc. It is impossible that a fishlike mammal will actually revert to being a true fish. |
| throwback | An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism. A lot of his work is a throwback to the fifties. |