GRE Word List
OBSESSIVE
tending to cause obsession
The meaning of the word obsessive is tending to cause obsession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |