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.

Random words

WordMeaning
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
assumptiona taking to or upon oneself
grudgeto be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully
subsistencereal being : existence
flinchto withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince
vagabonda person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life
callusa thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
whima capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy
mollifyto soothe in temper or disposition : appease