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 |
|---|---|
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| dilute | attenuate |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |