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 |
|---|---|
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
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| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |