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 |
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| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| provenance | origin |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| aver | to declare positively |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |