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 |
|---|---|
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
