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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| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
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| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
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