GRE Word List
HYPNOSIS
a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject
The meaning of the word hypnosis is a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| amity | friendship |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |