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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monographa learned treatise on a small area of learning
feralof, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast
insensibleincapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as
retrogradehaving or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars
impetusa driving force : impulse
obliqueneither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined
autocraticof, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute
transparenthaving the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid
arcaneknown or knowable only to a few people : secret
kismetfate