GRE Word List
AMBIGUOUS
doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness
The meaning of the word ambiguous is doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| retribution | recompense |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |