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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |