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 |
|---|---|
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |