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 |
|---|---|
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| equitable | having or exhibiting equity : dealing fairly and equally with all concerned |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| farce | stuff |