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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| warranted | sanction |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| fell | skin |
| heed | to pay attention |
| appease | pacify |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |