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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| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
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| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
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| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |