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 |
|---|---|
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |