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 |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| spate | freshet |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |