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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| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
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| garner | to gather into storage |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
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