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 |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |