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Associations of "In spite of" (30 Words)
| acrimony | Bitterness or ill feeling. The AGM dissolved into acrimony. |
| aggression | Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked. The president has been emboldened by the success of his latest aggressions. |
| animosity | Strong hostility. He no longer felt any animosity towards her. |
| antagonism | Active hostility or opposition. His antagonism towards the local people. |
| avenge | Inflict harm in return for an injury or wrong on behalf of (oneself or another. He wants to avenge the murder of his brother. |
| enmity | The feeling of a hostile person. Decades of enmity between the two countries. |
| feud | Carry out a feud. A savage feud over drugs money. |
| grievance | An allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice. Three pilots have filed grievances against the company. |
| grudge | Bear a grudge harbor ill feelings. He grudged the work and time that the meeting involved. |
| hatred | Intense dislike; hate. Racial hatred. |
| hostility | Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked. Their hostility to all outsiders. |
| inner | A shot that strikes the inner. Privy to inner knowledge. |
| interior | Situated on or relating to the inside of something; inner. The interior has been much restored. |
| internal | Inside the body. Internal organs. |
| inwardly | Within the mind. Inwardly seething he did as he was told. |
| malevolence | Wishing evil to others. His eyes were glowing with malevolence. |
| malice | The desire to harm someone; ill will. I bear no malice towards anybody. |
| malicious | Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm. A hotbed of rumour and malicious chit chat. |
| maliciousness | Feeling a need to see others suffer. |
| rancor | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| rancour | Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing. He spoke without rancour. |
| resentment | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. Some people harbour resentments going back many years. |
| retaliate | Take revenge for a perceived wrong. The blow stung and she retaliated immediately. |
| revenge | Inflict revenge on behalf of someone else. It s a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister. |
| vendetta | A feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other. He has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him. |
| vengeance | Punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. For vengeance I would do nothing This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. |
| venom | Feeling a need to see others suffer. Snake venoms have different effects. |
| wickedness | The quality of being wicked. The wickedness of the regime. |
| within | Inside; indoors. Beauty coming from within. |
| wreak | Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. The environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining. |