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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| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| juncture | a point of time |
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