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 |
|---|---|
| haven | harbor |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| potentate | ruler |
| mischance | bad luck |