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 |
|---|---|
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| wont | accustomed |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| malediction | curse |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |