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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| nexus | connection |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |