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 |
|---|---|
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |