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 |
|---|---|
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| quench | put out |