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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WordMeaning
gratiswithout charge or recompense : free
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reciteto repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
gaffea social or diplomatic blunder
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
propagateto cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
equityjustice according to natural law or right
briskkeenly alert : lively
heraldan official at a tournament of arms (see arm