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 |
|---|---|
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |