TOEFL vocabulary: animus
Definition of animus (noun) - feeling of hatred; resentment; animosity; hostility
Example sentences with this word:- Because the nation is seen as only partially liberated, and particularly by the membership of the largest party Fianna Fail, the animus of the national-popular consciousness is focused on this issue, to the detriment of class-based politics.
- From a different position, independently arrived at and much less troubling, the animus was to be shared lifelong by Robert Graves.