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 |
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| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |