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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| spoof | deceive |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |