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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |