GRE Word List
PSYCHOSIS
a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
The meaning of the word psychosis is a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| boor | peasant |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |