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 |
|---|---|
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |