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 |
|---|---|
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| witless | destitute of wit or understanding : foolish |