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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| peerless | matchless |
| amity | friendship |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| itinerary | the route of a journey or tour or the proposed outline of one |