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 |
|---|---|
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| delve | excavate |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |