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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|---|---|
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| dingy | dirty |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| stilted | pompous |
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