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 |
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| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| puerile | juvenile |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |