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 |
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| requite | to make return for : repay |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| refrain | curb |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |