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 |
|---|---|
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |