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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|---|---|
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
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