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 |
|---|---|
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
| demure | reserved |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| poise | balance |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |