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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |