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 |
|---|---|
| privy | private |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| portly | dignified |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| relish | characteristic flavor |