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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |