GRE Word List
ANIMUS
a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will
The meaning of the word animus is a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| paltry | inferior |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |