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 |
|---|---|
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |