GRE Word List
ANIMADVERSION
a critical and usually censorious remark
The meaning of the word animadversion is a critical and usually censorious remark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| contest | strive |