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 |
|---|---|
| politic | political |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |