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 |
|---|---|
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |