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Odyssey 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈɒd.ɪ.si/ (noun) Definition a long and adventurous journey, series of travels, pilgrimage, trek, voyage, peregrination, quest, crusade, wandering Example 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was…
Schizophrenia 601 Words You Need to Know /ˌskɪt.səˈfriː.ni.ə/ (noun) Definition a serious mental disorder or illness in which cannot distinguish between reality and imagination and develops two or multiple personalities Example Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost…
Narcissism 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈnɑː.sɪ.sɪ.zəm/ (noun) Definition the psychological condition of admiring one’s own appearance or abilities excessively and unreasonably, egocentrism, self-admiration, conceit, conceitedness, vanity, vainness, erotic interest in oneself, egoism, self-love, self-importance, egotism, megalomania, self-absorption Example Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental…
Iridescent 601 Words You Need to Know /ˌɪr.ɪˈdes.ənt/ (adj) Definition colorful like a rainbow, showing or reflecting bright colors like a rainbow that seem to change or move as the light reflection angle changes, lustrous, sparkling, luminous, dazzling, glittering, glowing, shimmering, gleaming, opalescent Example Colour trends go in cycles. There have been periods when colour…
Psychopath 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈsaɪ.kə.pæθ/ (noun) Definition a person who is mentally ill or has severe mental disorders causing them to act very aggressively and violently without any empathy for others, lunatic, madman, sociopath, madwoman, psychotic, maniac, psycho, crazy Example Though psychopaths make up roughly 1% of the general male adult population,…
Psychic 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈsaɪ.kɪk/ (adj & noun) Definition Adjective: of human mind, related to a mental problem or illness, cerebral, mental, psychological, psychical – possessing special and supernatural mental abilities to foresee and predict the future, supersensible, supersensory, extrasensory, mysterious, unexplained, intuitive, clairvoyant, telepathic Noun: a person with psychic abilities to…
Hymeneal 601 Words You Need to Know /ˌhī-mə-‘nē-əl/ (adj & noun) Definition Adjective: relating to marriage, matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, wedded, married, bridal, marital Noun: a wedding song or poem Example Wedding ceremonies and hymeneals can cost more than the GDP of a small country, in some cases. For the elite few, weddings should be…
Euthanasia 601 Words You Need to Know /ˌjuː.θəˈneɪ.ʒə/ (noun) Definition the act of painlessly putting an end to someone’s life who is too old or ill and there’s no hope for them so that the afflicted person would not suffer any more, mercy killing, coup de grâce, assisted suicide Example Euthanasia is the practice of…
Hydra 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈhaɪ.drə/ (noun) Definition a predicament or difficult problem that seems to be insolvable because it emerges again and again and never ends – in Greek mythology, the serpent with 9 heads killed by Hercules. The serpent grew new heads when Hercules cut off each – water snake, freshwater…
Epidemiology 601 Words You Need to Know /ˈepɪˌdi:mɪˈɒlədʒɪ/ (noun) Definition a branch of medicine concerned with the origin and spread of contagious or infectious diseases caused by bacteria or viruses Example By definition, epidemiology is the study (scientific, systematic, and data-driven) of the distribution (frequency, pattern) and determinants (causes, risk factors) of health-related states and…