GRE Word List
INIMICAL
being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence
The meaning of the word inimical is being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
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