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 |
|---|---|
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| impediment | something that impedes |