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 |
|---|---|
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| score | twenty |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |