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 |
|---|---|
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |