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 |
|---|---|
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |