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 |
|---|---|
| flounder | flatfish |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| fabricate | invent |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |