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 |
|---|---|
| collate | to compare critically |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
