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 |
|---|---|
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |