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 |
|---|---|
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |