GRE Word List
OBNOXIOUS
odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive
The meaning of the word obnoxious is odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
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