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 |
|---|---|
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| primal | original |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| freebooter | pirate |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| benison | blessing |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
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