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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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
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