GRE Word List
UXORIOUS
excessively fond of or submissive to a wife
The meaning of the word uxorious is excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.
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rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
canny | clever |
obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
generality | the quality or state of being general |
terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |