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 |
|---|---|
| dissension | disagreement |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |