GRE Word List
OBSESSIVE
tending to cause obsession
The meaning of the word obsessive is tending to cause obsession.
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| laud | praise |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
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| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
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| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |