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.

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WordMeaning
macabrehaving death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
uxoriousexcessively fond of or submissive to a wife
scrapfragments of discarded or leftover food
tensilecapable of tension : ductile
mangyaffected with or resulting from mange
corpusthe body of a human or animal especially when dead
penetrateto pass into or through
brochurepamphlet
patinaa usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color
transposeto change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of