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 |
|---|---|
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| congruent | congruous |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |