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 |
|---|---|
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| pander | to act as a pander |