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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| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
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| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
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