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 |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |