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 |
|---|---|
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |