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 |
|---|---|
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |