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 |
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| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| paradigm | example |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |