GRE Word List
HYSTERIA
a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
The meaning of the word hysteria is a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |