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 |
|---|---|
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| clime | climate |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |