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 |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| mendicant | beggar |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |