GRE vocabulary
Dysphasia
Difficulty speaking or understanding language due to brain damage or disease.
Example
"After the stroke, the patient struggled with dysphasia, finding it hard to form coherent sentences."
Etymology
From Greek 'dys-' meaning bad, difficult, and 'phasis' meaning speech.
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