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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| grudging | unwilling |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| medium | something in a middle position |