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 |
|---|---|
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| executor | one who executes something |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |