GRE Word List
OBSEQUIOUS
marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
The meaning of the word obsequious is marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.
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| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| fester | to generate pus |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
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| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |