GRE Word List

INSOMNIA

prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep

The meaning of the word insomnia is prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.

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anvila heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)
distillto let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate
unrulynot readily ruled, disciplined, or managed
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
routa state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat
equivocalsubject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse
jostleto come in contact or into collision
optimumthe amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end
derisionthe use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt