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 |
|---|---|
| wanton | merciless |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| fester | to generate pus |
| lode | waterway |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |