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 |
|---|---|
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| 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 |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| flag | any of various monocotyledonous plants with long ensiform leaves: such as |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |