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 |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| cryptic | secret |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |