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 |
|---|---|
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |