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 |
|---|---|
| faculty | ability |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |