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 |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| quench | put out |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| prong | fork |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |