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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |