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 |
|---|---|
| expound | to set forth : state |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |