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 |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| append | attach |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| unconscionable | shockingly unfair or unjust |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |