GRE Word List
AMBIENCE
a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere
The meaning of the word ambience is a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| implication | something implied: such as |