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 |
|---|---|
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| unsavory | insipid |
| 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 |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |