GRE Word List
LIBIDO
instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
The meaning of the word libido is instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity.
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prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
jocose | given to joking : merry |
bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
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glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
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