GRE Word List
OBSESSIVE
tending to cause obsession
The meaning of the word obsessive is tending to cause obsession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| stilted | pompous |
| 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 |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |