GRE Word List
ADVERSE
acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
The meaning of the word adverse is acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile.
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|---|---|
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| engender | beget |
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| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
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| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
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| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |