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 |
|---|---|
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| unsavory | insipid |
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |