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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bereavementthe state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone
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ricketyaffected with rickets
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provincialthe superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order
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fundamentalserving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic