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 |
|---|---|
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| commune | talk over |
| nourishment | food |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| dull | tedious |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |