GRE Word List
DICHOTOMY
a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
The meaning of the word dichotomy is a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |