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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| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| crochet | needlework consisting of the interlocking of looped stitches formed with a single thread and a hooked needle |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| endue | provide |
| compulsive | having power to compel |