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 |
|---|---|
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| subjugate | to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| encompass | include |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |