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 |
|---|---|
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |