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 |
|---|---|
| douse | to plunge into water |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| ebullient | boiling |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| expatriate | banish |