GRE Word List
FAWNING
seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery
The meaning of the word fawning is seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |