GRE Word List
OBSESSIVE
tending to cause obsession
The meaning of the word obsessive is tending to cause obsession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |