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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loiterto delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
interrogateto question formally and systematically
cohabitto live together as or as if a married couple
exhortto incite by argument or advice : urge strongly
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reverberatereflect
retaliateto return like for like