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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| concatenate | linked together |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |