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 |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| concur | to express agreement |
| apprehend | arrest |
| cursive | running |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |