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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| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| provident | frugal |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| paramour | lover |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |