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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| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |