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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cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
stridentcharacterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
garnerto gather into storage
entreethe act or manner of entering : entrance
precludeto make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
saccharineof, relating to, or resembling that of sugar
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clapperone that claps: such as
discreteconstituting a separate entity : individually distinct
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