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 |
|---|---|
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |