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 |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |