US University coming in to repudiate ignoring Democratic opposition (6)
I believe the answer is:
enmity
'opposition' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'us university coming in to repudiate ignoring democratic' is the wordplay.
'us university' becomes 'MIT' (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
'coming in to' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'repudiate' becomes 'deny' (denying is a kind of repudiating).
'ignoring' suggests deleting specific letters.
'democratic' becomes 'd' (political abbreviation).
'deny' with 'd' removed is 'eny'.
'mit' placed inside 'eny' is 'ENMITY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enmity that I've seen before include "Bad blood" , "Hostility, bad feeling towards" , "ill will" , "Hostility between opposing groups or nations" , "discord" .)