relent - To surrender or agree after resisting or opposing, often due to persuasion, pressure, or changing circumstances.
Our of pride, he would always refuse to accept assitance, but when things hit rock bottom, he relented, and finally accepted help from others.
stride - Progress or advancement: A significant step forward in development or improvement; or a long step or pace: A way of walking with long, decisive steps.
The Supreme Court's decision was a signfication stride in the movement towards desegretation.
nirvana - (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth; it represents the final goal of Buddhism
As the Buddha meditated under the banyan tree, a serene glow seemed to appear around him when he finally achieved nirvana.
