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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| writ | something written : writing |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| boor | peasant |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |