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 |
|---|---|
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| cunning | dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end |