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 |
|---|---|
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| 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 |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |