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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |