GRE Word List
AMBIVALENCE
simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
The meaning of the word ambivalence is simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haggard | not tamed |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |