Monday, July 4, 2016

LAPSE

WORD: LAPSE

MEANING:
1.
a. To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct: lapse into bad habits; a team that lapsed into mediocrity halfway through the season.
b. To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way: lapse into heresy.
c. To pass gradually or smoothly; slip: lapse into reverie.
2.
a. To come to an end, especially gradually or temporarily: He realized that his attention had lapsed and he hadn't heard the assignment.
b. To be no longer valid or active; expire: She allowed her membership to lapse after the first year.
3. Law To cease to be available as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility. Used of a right or privilege.
4. To go by; elapse: Years had lapsed since we last met.
5. stops, ends

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. a lapse of three weeks between letters
2. She could not finding him, and lapses into a sullen silence.

PRONOUNCE:
lapse - लैप्स

LINK: LAPSE

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