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 |
|---|---|
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| opaque | blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see opacity |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |