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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| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy |