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 |
|---|---|
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| stringent | tight |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |